Four year-end lists of the best data visualizations of 2014

In the spirit of insufferable year-end lists, for this weekend’s Data Dive we’ve compiled a delightfully meta collection of other publications’ choices for the best data visualizations of 2014.

WIRED has a gallery of 16 of The Best Science Visualizations of the Year including the vortices created when hummingbirds flap their wings, the genetic activity in ocean bacteria, the geographic origin of the HIV virus, and why Iowa is fluorescent.

Back at WIRED they’ve put together a list of 27 of the Most Inspiring Designs From 2014 from robotic birds to programmable metals to sensor-laden digital tattoos to a watch that serves as “a metronome for your day-to-day life.”